NOTD: Ulta Material Girl.

So today I have on Ulta Material Girl, a really pretty purple/pink with holographic glitter in it. It is so sparkly and glittery in the sunlight, such a gorgeous color. :) 

So that's the look for tonight, hope you like it! :) Thanks for stopping by!


-Nicole




 

Mini Haul From Ulta+OPI Ali's Big Break.

So I totally forgot to post this a while ago, I was supposed to do it last week, but forgot lol. These are just a few clearance polishes I picked up at Ulta, OPI Ali's Big Break, OPI Take The Stage, and China Glaze Aqua Baby. I thought the first two were perfect for the holidays, and it makes sense since these were part of OPI's Burlesque Holiday Collection last year. And Aqua Baby is just a really gorgeous blue...don't let the name fool you, this has no hint of aqua or a similar color, it's just a true blue. 

So I wore Ali's Big Break last weekend, and it's a red color with pink undertones, and gold shimmer. Really, really pretty. I absolutely love reds, and have a hard time passing up any. :)

So that's it for now, hopefully this weekend I can post another tutorial. :) Thanks for stopping by!

-Nicole 

Dripping Blood Halloween Nails!

Hey Everyone! So here's another Halloween tutorial. I wanted to get away from the orange for now, so this is a blood-inspired design. :) Hope you like it! Here is the link for the tutorial: DRIPPING BLOOD HALLOWEEN NAIL TUTORIAL

So the materials I used:
Ulta Concrete Evidence
Orly Naughty
Ulta Devious
Small brush
Toothpick 
Clear Top Coat (for rhinestones)
Seche Vite Top Coat (over whole nail)
Purple Rhinestones

I want to do at least one or two more Halloween designs, so hopefully I'll get that done soon! Thanks for stopping by! :)

-Nicole

Orly Nite Owl with Stamping...

Just a quick post tonight. I added some stamping to my nails that I polished with Orly Nite Owl yesterday. I think the overall look of it is pretty nice. :)

Stamped with Ulta Chocolate Kiss. :) Thanks for looking!

-Nicole

Recent Haul...and Time For A NO-BUY Haha

Hey Everyone! So I made a couple of trips to a couple of Ulta stores...and ended up buying a lot more polish than I had planned. :\ I did really well though as far as getting good deals and hitting up the sales(buy 2 get 1 free, 2-for-1, clearance), and using coupons and rewards, so that made me feel a little better about my purchases. :) So here is the first group I bought:

These three are Zoya Jem, Neeka and Jana, all from the Smoke & Mirrors Collection. I now have 7 out of 12 from that collection, and I think it will stay that way:

These three were random from various collections, left to right: Zoya Ali from the La-Di-Da collection, Zoya Marley from the Intimate collection, and Zoya Shay from the Touch collection:

Then I just had to take advantage of the 2-for-1 deal with Ulta nail polish, so I picked up Ulta Concrete Evidence and Army of 1:

So that was my first little haul...Then while visiting my grandparents I took a trip to the local Ulta there, and had an amazing time shopping there! It's funny how each Ulta can have a totally different selection of things and clearance items! :D I was very pleased with this second trip:

So these were buy 2 get 1 free, and are from the Orly Birds of a Feather collection. From left to right: Fowl Play, Nite Owl, and Peachy Parrot:

These two I just couldn't pass up. Ulta Material Girl and Chocolate Kiss:

And then, as I was about to leave, the clearance section caught my eye. I just had to check it out, and found a few sweet deals. :) I picked up China Glaze Blue Iguana and Electric Pineapple from the Island Escape collection, and Barielle Out-Grey-Geous. I tried so hard to get a good picture to capture these colors, but I just couldn't get it. :\ The blue is actually a blue and purple duochrome shimmer, Electric Pineapple actually has a greenish tint to it, and Out-Grey-Geous had little flecks of holographic glitter. Hopefully when I wear these I can get better pics of the true colors:

So here's the whole lot together!! :D

Ahhh so pretty...But seriously, this has put me in the No-Buy phase. I told myself I need to wear every one of these colors before I do another major haul. Hopefully that will actually happen. ;) Thanks for stopping by, I should have new Nails of the Day and tutorials up sometime this week!

-Nicole

Toes of the Day!

So here is my very first toes of the day post haha. I've been debating whether or not I would like to post pics of my feet on here, and decided well, why not? So hopefully they don't look too bad. ;) I used this really pretty poppy color, Ulta Eye Popping Poppy. I love it sooo much! It's so gorgeous and bright. Then I just did a couple of lines and dots, and added some little rhinestones for the finished look:

Just kinda simple, and my first time using rhinestones. :) Hope you enjoyed this one, thanks for stopping by! Next up on my tutorial list is probably a Dexter inspired design...I've only seen a couple of them out there, but wanted to do my own twist on it. :)

-Nicole 

NOTD: China Glaze Midtown Magic.

I decided to test out one of China Glaze's Metro Collection colors, Midtown Magic. It is a really pretty brown glitter, so hard to describe how it really looks or capture it in a picture...but it is really nice. :) 

Then I decided to do a stamp design over it. It was gorgeous on its own, but I've gotten used to having some type of design on my nails lately haha. I used Ulta High Roller, a shimmery gold color, to stamp the design:

I really like the overall look of this one. The colors are amazing! Perfect for fall. Thanks for looking! :)

-Nicole

A Little Haul, Good Deals. :)

So I am always one to look for awesome deals on everything, and I came across some really good ones this weekend! :) I always tell myself that I really don't need to buy more polish, but you can never have enough, right? So Ulta has a great deal on all of their name brand products, buy 3 and get 3 free! So I did exactly that:

From left to right: Eye Popping Poppy, Dance Teal Dawn, Little Black Dress, The Jungle Look, Devious, and Moody Blues.

I also took a trip to my local mall and visited Claire's. I usually never go into this store anymore, but I saw their awesome display of polishes, and they had a buy one get one 50% off deal, so I grabbed a couple of really pretty glitter colors:

The blue is called Twinkle Twinkle and the purple one is kind of holographic and is called Evil Queen. I can't wait to try these two. :)

Then I visited my local Walgreens and they had the buy one get one 50% off deal on L'Oreal products. I had been wanting the Project Runway polishes for the past couple of weeks, but never got them...so this was the perfect opportunity to get a couple! :)

The first one is called Raven's Strength and is actually really dark, almost a metallic black. The second one is Owl's Night, and to me it looks like a gold with a greenish tint to it, and it's nice and sparkly! :)

So overall I am very pleased with my purchases, can't wait to test them all out. :) Also planning my next tutorial video, so check back for that soon! Thanks for stopping by! :)

-Nicole

Awesome Gradient Leopard Nail Design. :)

Hey everyone! So I decided to do a gradient leopard design tonight...kind of for Fall, so I picked some Fall-looking colors. :) I also filmed my very first tutorial on how to do this design!! Yay! :) 

 In the sunlight, shows the true colors much better:

My base was Zoya Jules sponged with Ulta Chic Peek, spots were Sinful Colors Innocent and Sephora Domestic Goddess...Glitter polish is Sinful Colors Smoking Hot...and I used Salley Hansen Black Out for detailing, but any black polish will work. :)

Here is the link to my tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezm90ABLOck&feature=youtube_gdata


I actually like this mani a lot, so it will probably stay on this time for more than a day haha. ;)

Thanks for stopping by! :)

-Nicole  

New Nails Today!

I decided to change my nails tonight, thought I'd start trying out some of my new goodies. :) I went with OPI DS Mystery and then stamped a design over that with Ulta Brownette.

 You can kind of see the purple in there...I just did them tonight so I didn't get any pics in the sunlight, I will try to do that tomorrow. Overall, this design turned out pretty cool, can't wait to try out more! :)

 -Nicole